Skiing, CdM: Haugan wins last slalom of the season, Alex Vinatzer finishes in top 10
Alex Vinatzer eighth in last seasonal slalom
The 2023/24 Alpine Skiing World Cup sends the technical disciplines to the archives: after Saturday’s giant slalom success of Switzerland’s Loic Meillard comes twenty-four hours later that of Norway’s Timon Haugan, who on the snows of Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria, takes victory in the special slalom. For Haugan è it was his first success this season and his third overall podium finish after his second place in Schladming, also between narrow poles, on Jan. 24 and his third in Aspen, in the giant slalom, on March 2.
Rounding out the top 3 for the day are Austria's Manuel Feller and Germany's Linus Strasser. Feller also won the Specialty Cup (the only one not prerogative of Marco Odermatt, who dominated the men’s season) with 715 points in the standings, compared to Strasser’s 526 and Haugan’s 450.
Chapter Italians: Alex Vinatzer finished today's slalom in eighth place, 2"18 behind Haugan, managing to improve on the tenth place he got in the first run despite the disadvantage of starting with bib number 20. Tommaso Sala’s performance was also good: fourteenth after the first heat, the 1995 class recovered two positions in the second, thus finishing twelfth.
Sala è was also the first of the Italians in the specialty ranking, where he è overall 17th with 158 points to his credit. Behind him is Vinatzer himself, with 145. Other Italians in points are Tobias Kastlunger, 34th with 42 points, and Stefano Gross, 38th with 30 points.
